Two days ago, the news that a company called Psystar was offering a Mac clone made quite some waves across the net. They were offering their Open Computer, a standard x86 machine, which they could pre-load with Mac OS X Leopard."We're not breaking any laws,", they insisted. ComputerWorld and The Guardian did some digging around, and found some discrepancies.
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Member since:2005-10-05
Since it's just a beige box PC with an osx86 DVD.
Are you sure? The article that I read implied that they were using a straight up Leopard installation. They had actually fooled the Apple installer into thinking it was a genuine Mac by installing a custom Bios/EFI on the system.
Member since:2007-02-17
Nothing new there. They were using the same trick that every hackintosh uses. The issue is that they are actually stupid enough to try to sell it. I don't see what the big deal is. Its not like OSX has anything software wise that you really need. the only software of any real value on the Mac are the Pro ones and if you can afford those you can afford a Mac and are most likely to already own one. I have an MBP and I have Logic, other than that there is no other reason than "because its a mac" that I see to even get one of these. You have strict hardware limits, so that defeats the purpose of expandability, you may not be to use future versions of the OS. The only people i can see benefiting from this are the ubergeeks who just want to shove it to the man because they can't do so in real life lest they get their asses kicked.
The only thing of note here in this whole Psystar debacle is the debate about the EULA, other than that I'm really not interested in a tocheaptobuyonesoIcrackedoneintosh.
Edited 2008-04-16 22:14 UTC
Member since:2005-07-23
The EFI-part are done by another guy called netkas and you can install that on your own harddrive yourself. They haven't done shit except stealing other peoples work and trying to get paid for it. It's not exactly "unmodified", but yes, it can run vanilla kernels which couldn't be done before. But as I said it's done by netkas and not by this company.
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2005-07-23
Since it's just a beige box PC with an osx86 DVD. Big deal, sort of not news worthy, althought bad practise from them.